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Article: Recent studies by T. Lahey and co-authors add new data to bacteremia findings.
- Article from:
- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- November 15, 2009
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"Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB) is a lethal and increasingly common infection ill hospitalized patients. We assessed the impact of infectious diseases consultation (IDC) on clinical management and hospital mortality of SAB in 240 hospitalized patients ill a retrospective cohort study," scientists in Lebanon report (see also Bacteremia).
"who received IDC were older than those who did not (57.9 vs. 51.7 yr; p = 0.05), and were more likely to have a health care-associated infection (63% vs. 45%; p
The researchers concluded: "IDC is associated with reduced mortality in patients with staphylococcal bacteremia."
Lahey and colleagues published their study in ...
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